St Andrew’s Hospital has provided medical and surgical excellence to South Australians for 80 years. This section features a little about where we’ve come from and where we are going.

Our aim is to provide a diverse range of clinical services and to be the best at what we provide. Selection of new clinical services is determined by patient needs, our expertise and financial influences.

Patients & Visitors

The team at St Andrew’s will make every effort to ensure your admission, stay and discharge is as simple and pleasant as possible. We’ve included some tips on what to bring, how you can keep in touch with your friends and where they can park when visiting you.

Specialists

St Andrew's Hospital nurses have long had a reputation for being highly skilled and dedicated. It's one of the hospital's points of distinction. Adelaide's leading doctors tell us it's one of the main reasons they choose to work at St Andrew's.

St Andrew's prides itself on the low turn over and high tenure of its staff.

Foundation

The St Andrew's Hospital Foundation assists the Hospital in its work by providing state of the art equipment and funding training and development opportunities for staff to keep St Andrew's Hospital at the forefront of medical and surgical excellence. The support of our community is vital to us achieving this mission.

COVID-19

We would like to assure all of our current and future patients, visitors and staff that we are following the recommendations and guidelines from SA Health and the Federal Government and some additional precautions to ensure everyone remains healthy in light of the COVID-19 situation.

These include the following:

Limiting visitors:

Patients on the wards may nominate one person to visit them, across the duration of their stay (it should be the same individual that visits each time, not a different person each time);

Patients in day procedure areas eg: day surgery or the day chemotherapy suite may only have a visitor enter the hospital for drop-off or pick-up;

Visitors will be required to attend a screening station on the Ground Floor prior to entry;

Contacting all patients by phone prior to admission to ensure that they do not meet the high risk criteria for COVID-19 (see below*). Patient temperature testing and additional screening also occurs on the day of admission;

Screening everyone who will be working in the Hospital upon entry each day, including daily temperature checks.

We understand that some of these restrictions will be difficult for our patients, and we appreciate your cooperation in helping us to keep everyone healthy.

Your doctor will be able to advise you of the status of your upcoming planned procedure.

Persons with new onset of other clinical symptoms compatible with COVID-19 (headache, myalgia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea) AND who are close contacts of a confirmed case of COVID-19; or who have returned from overseas in the past 14 days.

NOTE: A close contact is someone who has had more than 15 minutes of face to face contact, or has spent more than 2 hours in a room with a confirmed COVID case without appropriate PPE

Options for patients to access testing (as per SA Health, 30th April 2020):

Information about COVID-19 and Testing Centres

Metropolitan and regional COVID-19 clinics are available across South Australia.

If you meet the criteria for testing for COVID-19, you do not need a referral to visit a dedicated COVID-19 clinic.

You will require a ‘specimen collection request form’ from your GP to access drive-through and home testing services.

Further information regarding these services can be found on the S.A. Health website via the links below: